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The Queen of Spades and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Pushkin, Alexander; Debreczeny, Paul

Book ID: 110136676
Publisher: Alma Classics
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Weight: 5 MB
Edition: Oxford World’s Classics
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781847494788

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✦ Synopsis

This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin’s best works of fiction.The Queen of Spadeshas long been acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession.The Tales of Belkinare witty parodies of sentimentalism, whilePeter the Great’s Blackamooris an early experiment with recreating the past.The Captain’s Daughteris a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

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